Oswald Chambers – My Utmost for His Highest – Sunday, 29
December 2013 “Deserter or Disciple?”
From that time many of His disciples went back, and walked no
more with Him.(John 6:66)
When God gives a vision by His Spirit through His word of what
He wants, and your mind and soul thrill to it, if you do not walk in the light
of that vision, you will sink into servitude to a point of view which Our Lord
never had. Disobedience in mind to the heavenly vision will make you a slave to
points of view that are alien to Jesus Christ. Do not look at someone else and
say – Well, if he can have those views and prosper, why cannot I? You have to
walk in the light of the vision that has been given to you and not compare
yourself with others or judge them, that is between them and God. When you find
that a point of view in which you have been delighting clashes with the
heavenly vision and you debate, certain things will begin to develop in you – a
sense of property and a sense of personal right, things of which Jesus Christ
made nothing. He was always against these things as being the root of
everything alien to Himself. "A man’s life consisteth not in the abundance
of the things that he possesseth." If we do not recognize this, it is
because we are ignoring the undercurrent of Our Lord’s teaching.
We are apt to lie back and bask in the memory of the wonderful
experience we have had. If there is one standard in the New Testament revealed
by the light of God and you do not come up to it, and do not feel inclined to
come up to it, that is the beginning of backsliding, because it means your
conscience does not answer to the truth. You can never be the same after the
unveiling of a truth. That moment marks you for going on as a more true
disciple of Jesus Christ or for going back as a deserter.
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